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Review Essay on British Economic Growth, 1270-1870 by Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M. S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, and Bas van Leeuwen

  • Jeffrey G. Williamson
Journal of Economic Literature
vol. 54, no. 2, June 2016
(pp. 514-21)
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Abstract

British Economic Growth, 1270-1870 makes a big leap forward in our understanding of the long-run performance of what became the leading nineteenth-century economy and the workshop of the world. It does so by implementing a giant quantitative enterprise, one that will make it the standard data source for studying the evolution of the British economy for decades to come.

Citation

Williamson, Jeffrey G. 2016. "Review Essay on British Economic Growth, 1270-1870 by Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M. S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, and Bas van Leeuwen." Journal of Economic Literature, 54 (2): 514-21. DOI: 10.1257/jel.54.2.514

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JEL Classification

  • C82 Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data; Data Access
  • D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
  • E23 Macroeconomics: Production
  • I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
  • I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
  • N13 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: Pre-1913
  • N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913